Logic Pro: Virtual Instruments

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3/14/2012

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11/10/2011

Join author Brian Trifon as he shows how to improve music and audio productions using virtual instruments in Logic Pro. This course tours the program's virtual instruments, including the ES2 hybrid synthesizer, Sculpture physical modeling synthesizer, EFM1 FM synthesizer, the EVOC 20 vocoder, the Ultrabeat drum synthesizer, and the EXS24 sampler, and shows how to achieve various effects with each instrument's parameters. The course also covers working with oscillators and filters, understanding signal flow, creating custom synthesizer patches, adding effects, synthesizing speech, creating a library of custom sound samples, and much more.

Virtual Instruments with Logic Pro will be updating on a monthly basis, eventually covering all the virtual instruments in the application. Look for the latest movies here and on the lynda.com blog.

Skill Level Intermediate

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- [Voiceover] In this chapter, we'll take a lookat the powerful Ultrabeat synthesizer.Ultrabeat is primarily designed forcreating percussive sounds,but can also be used to createa wide range of synth tones.Ultrabeat combines many approachesto synthesis and has an extensiveset of modulation featuresto create and shape the sounds.So let's take a look at the interface.There's three main sections here.There's the Assignment section.The Synthesizer section,and the Step Sequencer.The Assignment section,is basically where we're goingto have all the sounds,so all 25 different drum voices.

And you can adjust the volume,and the panning,and the output.Mute and solo,and so on on so forth.Each different voice,it's kind of the organizationalcenter of Ultrabeat.To the right we have theSynthesizer section.So we have two Oscillators.So Oscillator one, up top.And then Oscillator two, down at the bottom.And then we have a Noise Generator,in the center,and a Ring Modulator as well.So the signals from all of those,flow into this filter in this center.So it's a multimode filter.And it has a bit crusher and distortionthat's attached to it.

So from the filter then the signalgoes to the output or amplifier stage.So here where's you can control the volume,and we can add in two-band EQ.Modulate the pan and also,adjust the stereo spread as well.In terms of modulation features,we've got four envelopes,and two LFOs and these can beapplied to almost any aspect of theSynthesizer section.Down at the bottom we have the Step Sequencer.And it can be used to create and editrhythmic patterns.It can also be used to automateparameter offsets.

So each step in your sequence,can have different pitch,oscillator, filter and envelope settings.So it's really cool.So let's check out a musical examplethat has a number of differentUltrabeats that are creating boththe percussion and the synth sounds,so you can hear what it sounds like.(Percussion and synth sounds)So now that we've taken a lookat the interface to Ultrabeat,in the next video let's explorehow we can play, organize, mixand import sounds using theAssignment section.